Dave, thanks for the suggestion - a solution ended up being down this path.
Specific steps to remedy the problem: unlock the cell where the buttons are
located, and .Protect Contents:=False at opening to initialize. Don't
understand the intuitive logic of the latter, but it works.

Regards,
George


"Dave" wrote in message
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If the code run by the button tries to change a protected cell, the
protection interrupts the code.
Try inserting these 2 lines into your code, one at the beginning, the
other
at the end.

ActiveSheet.Unprotect
<Your Code
ActiveSheet.Protect DrawingObjects:=True, Contents:=True, Scenarios:=True


"G Lykos" wrote in message
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Greetings! Have a worksheet with a button and event code. When the
sheet
is unprotected, the button and code work fine. When the sheet is
protected,
and some cells are selected to be locked but the one with the button is
not,
the button doesn't work. There is a host of options for sheet
protection,
allowing the user to change this, that, and the other while the sheet is
protected, but none of them seem directly related to this. What would
be
interfering with button operation, and/or how can it be enabled on the
protected sheet?

Thanks,
George